Month: November 2018

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O-DATA COMPANY – SAP ACQUIRES X-DATA COMPANY – QUALTRICS FOR $8BN

SAP buy Qualtrics for $8 billion SAP and Qualtrics on Monday announced they have entered into an agreement under which SAP is to acquire Qualtrics for $8 billion (USD). At this amount, SAP will acquire all outstanding shares of Qualtrics.…

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UK Cloud Infrastructure spend surpassed IT spend

UK Cloud Infrastructure spend surpassed IT spend Cloud infrastructure spending has surpassed spending on-premises IT infrastructure in UK-based organizations as reported by the Cloud Industry Forum, last week, that was based on a survey handled by Vanson Bourne.  Some of…

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Google’s data-transfer appliance hits beta in Europe

Google’s data-transfer appliance hits beta in Europe Google’s data-transfer appliance hits beta in Europe This announcement goes along with their ‘Transfer Appliance’ project they had announced last year, which consists on transferring data from a company’s data centers to Google’s…

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HPE new supercomputer to be €38m

HPE new super computer to be €38m The High-Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have announced about a new project in which both will be collaborating that is a system called ‘Hawk’.…

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Largest Arm-based Isambard Supercomputer in Europe

Largest Arm-based Isambard Super Computer in Europe The largest Arm-based supercomputer in Europe has gone live. It was created by the GW4 Alliance in a partnership with Cray and the UK’s Met Office. It would become the largest supercomputer outside…

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New largest data storage machine by Spectra Logic

New largest data storage machine by Spectra Logic Spectra Logic, an American storage specialist, unveiled on November 8th, a tape library with 2,000 Petabytes of uncompressed data capacity in a single system. These new drives that will be available to…

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Meet Sierra: Livermore’s powerful new supercomputer

Sierra Super Computer 240 Racks In this current era, nuclear tensions between nations is once again ramping up. North Korea’s past nuclear testing, concerns over Iran’s nuclear capabilities, and China’s growing military might has made nuclear deterrents one of this…

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Amazon’s HQ2 on its way to Northern Virginia

Second Amazon Location Confirmed as HQ2 The new Amazon US headquarters could be located in Northern Virginia, reported The Washington Post.  The project is going by the name of “HQ2”, this is because it would be the second location of…

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Schneider reveals pre-fabricated data centers certified by Uptime Institute

Modular Uptime Approved DCs from Schneider The critical infrastructure specialist, Schneider Electric company has recently launched a range of power modules, that look like containers, for data center owners and operators, who are looking for modular construction methods to improve…

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Microsoft Goes Underwater

NextGen DC from Microsoft This project started on the fact that half of the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the coast, and building data centers closer to people’s homes would deliver low latency data to users, which is…

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